Sadly, that is the truth today. I can't figure out what the Navy's role and mission is today, and how they should be configured, or how they should be equipped. And judging from recent events, nor can the Department of the Navy. The have to be more than simply a projection platform for strength. That strength comes at too high a cost today to get it wrong. New classes of destroyers cannot be funded, designed, commissioned, and then scrapped like is happening today without some accountability. It isn't just the Navy either. The Air Force can't make up its mind what kind of aircraft it needs other than they need to be expensive, yet some of their biggest successes have come from relatively inexpensive drones that do much the same as piloted a/c. I wont get started on the Army because they are adrift and leaderless at the top. A four-hundred-thousand-person Army that can't deploy have that many boots isn't going to win any wars when it's opponent can put one million plus on the battlefield. This country is leaderless and has lost its unity and sense of purpose. We better find it and fix this mess before we lose our ability to do so.
A lot of that started when DEI and woke was promoted above merit. Trump slowed it down but the last 3 yrs have been a wreck. Vietnam's loss I place solely on the politicians.
My first thought about that story is the plot would be perfectly predictable as the daughter would have been planning to marry an infidel thereby forcing the family to kill her according to their law.
You know SL, I bet they know very well how far into this minefield they’ve taken themselves, but they don’t know how to get themselves out of it gracefully
"... an anti-capitalist enterprise [the Guardian] that is rooting for a multi-billion-dollar company [Disney] to make money. How quaint. How conformist. How dumb."
As for the third ("dumb"), perhaps not. What if Disney through third parties (i.e., the Hillary Clinton henchmen-lawyer racket) financially props up the Guardian and other rags? Joe Biden isn't the only wh*re with his hand out...
"Separating people from God is a goal of all who seek power over man."
Bingo! The original Snow White was perfect in capturing and expressing the goodness of the Judeo-Christian principles that made this country great when it was released, and movie-goers affiliated with the movie. No marketing plan of modern day has achieved the power to relate to so many people and be so enduring. To the Satanists running this country, our media, schools, and many politicians, the original Snow White is Kryptonite to their actions. They are desperately working to erase or rewrite the truth whenever possible.
A salute to your service Dear Sir!!! As far as Snow White goes; I’m “in the biz” & have watched it circle the drain for a while now. Sad to say it’s been progressively (key word there) heading in this direction for some time. Back when people with Harvard MBA’s began getting top slots @ the studios is - IMHO - what began the long slide. What do these people know about filmmaking/storytelling? Answer: nothing! They’ve never made films (not even short ones) & never attended film school so they don’t understand the ship upon which they are the captain. They set up a system where every project had to make $$ so they would focus group every project (& every ending) to death. You can’t make movies that way. Think it was old Jack Warner who said you green light a picture “by the nose”, meaning your gut instinct. The so-called “Ivy-league” graduates have no experience in the industry they’re trying to lead (sidebar: always thought it ironic the term “Ivy-league”; Ivy is itself an insidious plant & if allowed to grow unchecked will choke out everything else around it wherever it grows). When corporations like Sony bought studios that further deepens the problem, because the P & L statements have to look good for the shareholders. Everything became over-corporatized. Some films make $$, other will not. You can never have a hit every time out of the gate. The infusion of politics hasn’t helped & it became a matter of filmmakers demonstrating to one another how virtuous or “woke” they are. The wise man who once observed that any organization/business/group, etc. will become leftist unless specifically formed not to demonstrated a level of perspicacity well above the crowd.
The bottom line is this: it ain’t about politics (Jack Warner once said “You want to send a message use Western Union”) because audiences don’t want to be preached to/insulted. How are you going to make $$ when your film insults fully half of your potential audience & you go on some idiotic awards show & insult those people again? That’s rank stupidity on steroids. In the end it all boils down to story; what is it about, who is your character in trouble, why do you care about them, & how are they going to get out of this jam?
Don- This is one of your best columns and will be sent on to our kids in Colorado and California. It will be interesting to observe how they react. My guess. The email will float off into one of those black holes somewhere and disappear; no comments. Our kids all reared their kids as we did on that classic, Snow White. My wife and I laughed out loud at the two poll choices at the end. We voted for Shaft but could have easily gone the other way too. Walt Disney is not turning in his grave; he is spinning big time. Happy Veterans Day. And, oh by the way, the Veterans Hospital in Prescott, AZ is terrific. Many of my Vietnam era buddies have used or presently use that facility. While I am not a veteran (did not pass the physical for the draft- bad knees), I am proud of the VA Hospital here and have never in 20 years heard a negative comment about it. It is an asset to this area of Arizona.
I too, have a DD214 somewhere in the house dated October 27, 1955. It is in a hanging file drawer, actually. Once in a blue moon I come across it. Then I look at the news headlines and say to myself, "I served for this?"
Don, another opus. Thank you. We are watching in real time, the financial effect of DEI. We all find it both absurd and humorous, that a corporation like Disney walks off a cliff financially with these bad decisions.
The unseen effects of DEI become more personal. When you go to a doctor, or other healthcare professional, who is admitted to the program for reasons, other than intelligence, hard work and skill. In addition, we will soon see the effect of these policies as the corp traffic controllers are replaced.
Semper Fi to all those in the Marines. God bless our veterans.
Doesn't matter. None of us will pay to see any of this DRIVEL; it is all an affront to anyone with a normal functioning brain. Ignore all of it, and move on to YOUR DAY.
I agree with you, but as this virus spreads it is increasingly more difficult to ignore it. Perhaps ignoring it has been going on for far too long. Perhaps we should have been alert to it and rejected and stopped it before it got so much of a lead on us. I believe everything happens for a reason. Without obstacles, we become complacent as a society very rapidly and that never ends well. As flawed as he is, I think that's why we have DJ Trump today. Perhaps he is here for a reason, to make us see the corruption that has overtaken our government and much of the world right before our eyes. It's all about timing and I don't believe in coincidences. Everyone needs to draw their own conclusions from it, and learn as well.
The Guardian writes: "The entire farrago" and "bland and prosaic" who in the hell speaks like that??? Thought they were to write to audiences of 8th graders.
nearly forty years ago i dated a Brit girl for a few months. she and her parents said "farrago" routinely. i think it's routine usage on that side of the pond.
Newspapers are supposed to write at the 8th grade reading level as you state. Perhaps it was the snooty UK edition? They use big words and mispronounce a lot of words.
Would it matter? How many people graduate grade school proficient in reading at their grade level? Perhaps we should be teaching reading and writing at the Tik Tok level+/-.
OMG. Only a matter of time before we are living in caves again. Never going to fix anything if people cannot read and comprehend the significance of events.
I watched that video of the incident and thought to myself, that guy could be me or one of my friends who are so tired of this crap that they just act by impulse. Not sure the statute of limitations on the following so I will disguise the names of those involved just in case. When I was in the Army some of my (nameless here) friends and I went into town to have fun and meet girls and dance. During the evening, a drunken Hippie guy and a couple of his Hippie friends decided he was going to confront one of us because we had short hair and it was obvious we were military and therefore not welcome dancing with Hippie girls. In the interest of brevity, let's just say that when you attack one of us you attack us all and the three Hippee dudes found themselves laying behind the bar and bleeding a little. The whole incident happened in seconds and it was over. The proprietor of the place didn't even call the cops, the dancing continued, and we left. Stuff usually happens in split seconds and I suspect the guy who popped those people reacted out of frustration, annoyance, and a sense of "I've had enough". Sad that people died and his life is ruined but eventually this happens somewhere. It likely could happen with many of us.
Don’t know how bad off he (I’ve even read a piece where he may be ex-SS or something like)is but he speaks for many many of out generation. Just how much of this pansy ass bs are we supposed to take.
Reminds me of that line, Too old to fight, too fat to run, I may as well shoot ‘em right here and be done with it!
The vast majority of good in the West was brought or discovered by the White race. We pass the values that led in one way or another to the above to our children through fables like Snow White. When we try and minimize that through promotion of false story telling it diminishes the pride our children take in their history and in themselves . My comment was about who should really be maintains these stories and why!
“Separating people from God is a goal of all who seek power over man.”
And there’s your money quote.
Second favorite: “I laugh at the self-righteousness of an anti-capitalist enterprise that is rooting for a multi-billion-dollar company to make money. How quaint. How conformist. How dumb.”
The cadence is almost Churchillian. Nicely done.
And to Don, and all of those who served, thank you for your service to our country.
I'm no prophet, but I knew way back during the first few months "they" were talking about Political Correctness, that 1. the prima donna class had dreamed it up; 2. it would be a permanent arrangement by some crummy fiat or other; 3. that smart people, i.e., intelligence quotient above 78, would detest it. Since 3's are in the minority, it would be rammed down the throats of those who protested. It's the American way. The only joy there is in PC now is our shredded freedom of speech while we still have it, to make fun of it.
in the eighties i seriously considered pursuing a career in academia. i had only attended conservative Christian schools through undergrad. i had very good grades and a stellar GRE. when i looked into grad schools it soon became obvious that even at that early date academia and Christianity were utterly incompatible. i eventually got an MBA from a government-operated university. there i was blackballed from career placement assistance b/c of questioning a pro-abortion speaker.
You may have been blackballed for your spiritual stand, but I bet you have thrived anyway since then, as a spiritual orientation usually gives one a pretty stable grounding in life.
I still believe that if you stick to your core beliefs, try to live by a moral code, and work hard, it always turns out the way it was supposed to. In some ways, maybe they did you a favor by blackballing you. My mother used to say "when you die, all you take with you is the way you lived your life".
Thank you for your service, Don. Both in the Army and here on your site.
And thank you for your service to all of the other veterans who contribute to this site.
Don is our commander in chief.
Go Army!
I'll forgive you since its Veterans Day (tomorrow). Its Go Navy!! =p
My WWII Navy dad is looking down and saluting you. But you left out the A-R-M-Y letters in Navy:)
Never Again Volunteer Yourself.... we basically are Marine carriers anyway.
Sadly, that is the truth today. I can't figure out what the Navy's role and mission is today, and how they should be configured, or how they should be equipped. And judging from recent events, nor can the Department of the Navy. The have to be more than simply a projection platform for strength. That strength comes at too high a cost today to get it wrong. New classes of destroyers cannot be funded, designed, commissioned, and then scrapped like is happening today without some accountability. It isn't just the Navy either. The Air Force can't make up its mind what kind of aircraft it needs other than they need to be expensive, yet some of their biggest successes have come from relatively inexpensive drones that do much the same as piloted a/c. I wont get started on the Army because they are adrift and leaderless at the top. A four-hundred-thousand-person Army that can't deploy have that many boots isn't going to win any wars when it's opponent can put one million plus on the battlefield. This country is leaderless and has lost its unity and sense of purpose. We better find it and fix this mess before we lose our ability to do so.
A lot of that started when DEI and woke was promoted above merit. Trump slowed it down but the last 3 yrs have been a wreck. Vietnam's loss I place solely on the politicians.
My Ass Rides In Navy Equipment SIR.
Well, not MY ass, I served in the Big Red One and 32nd AADCom before departing for weekend warrior status.
Dittos for my WWII Navy Dad. Miss him terribly.
vietnam dec1968-dec1969 101st. lz sally.
Lord help me, but the poll question made me imagine Tevyeh singing "Tradition" while wearing a suicide vest.
Bombmaker, bombmaker Make me a bomb
Find me a Jew
Catch me a Yid
Night after night in the dark I'm alone
So find me bomb
I can throw
Pretty close to what is being taught in US public education today. Like it? Vote Democrat. Dislike it? Vote Trump.
A poet among us.
Oh man, SL. I just got the monitor, keyboard and mouse. *Sighs Coffee and comments dont mix.
Brilliant and insightful as ever
Only a sick person could write that! (Sarcasm)
Bravo!! Well done! Mr. Lardmaster
My first thought about that story is the plot would be perfectly predictable as the daughter would have been planning to marry an infidel thereby forcing the family to kill her according to their law.
“All day long I’d bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb, if I were a wealthy man…”
May Disney’s remake of Snow White be their biggest bomb ever. The MOAB of movies. The mother of all bombs.
Perhaps then, they will learn a lesson. Or not.
You know SL, I bet they know very well how far into this minefield they’ve taken themselves, but they don’t know how to get themselves out of it gracefully
Today from the minaret on the top of largest mosque in Gaza a soldier chanted: shema yisroel! Hear! O Israel!
You can find it here:https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/israel-looks-headed-victory-hamas-surrounded-hiding-gaza/
Goosebumps and tears!
Excellent, Joseph. And you killed two birds with one stone (it overrides Google's ability to shut the video down if the user has AdBlock, which I do).
This is as fine as the vid I saw yesterday of a Hezbollah snipers last shot.
Thanks for posting that, Joseph! Goosebumps and tears indeed.
True. And maybe, they think. finally, the Neanderthal conservatives will get it this time and embrace this thing called wokeness.
nope and alienating half your customer base is the epitimy of stupid.
"... an anti-capitalist enterprise [the Guardian] that is rooting for a multi-billion-dollar company [Disney] to make money. How quaint. How conformist. How dumb."
As for the third ("dumb"), perhaps not. What if Disney through third parties (i.e., the Hillary Clinton henchmen-lawyer racket) financially props up the Guardian and other rags? Joe Biden isn't the only wh*re with his hand out...
God bless all our Veterans mightily, and protect those servicemen and women currently serving on land and sea and air everywhere.
"Separating people from God is a goal of all who seek power over man."
Bingo! The original Snow White was perfect in capturing and expressing the goodness of the Judeo-Christian principles that made this country great when it was released, and movie-goers affiliated with the movie. No marketing plan of modern day has achieved the power to relate to so many people and be so enduring. To the Satanists running this country, our media, schools, and many politicians, the original Snow White is Kryptonite to their actions. They are desperately working to erase or rewrite the truth whenever possible.
A salute to your service Dear Sir!!! As far as Snow White goes; I’m “in the biz” & have watched it circle the drain for a while now. Sad to say it’s been progressively (key word there) heading in this direction for some time. Back when people with Harvard MBA’s began getting top slots @ the studios is - IMHO - what began the long slide. What do these people know about filmmaking/storytelling? Answer: nothing! They’ve never made films (not even short ones) & never attended film school so they don’t understand the ship upon which they are the captain. They set up a system where every project had to make $$ so they would focus group every project (& every ending) to death. You can’t make movies that way. Think it was old Jack Warner who said you green light a picture “by the nose”, meaning your gut instinct. The so-called “Ivy-league” graduates have no experience in the industry they’re trying to lead (sidebar: always thought it ironic the term “Ivy-league”; Ivy is itself an insidious plant & if allowed to grow unchecked will choke out everything else around it wherever it grows). When corporations like Sony bought studios that further deepens the problem, because the P & L statements have to look good for the shareholders. Everything became over-corporatized. Some films make $$, other will not. You can never have a hit every time out of the gate. The infusion of politics hasn’t helped & it became a matter of filmmakers demonstrating to one another how virtuous or “woke” they are. The wise man who once observed that any organization/business/group, etc. will become leftist unless specifically formed not to demonstrated a level of perspicacity well above the crowd.
The bottom line is this: it ain’t about politics (Jack Warner once said “You want to send a message use Western Union”) because audiences don’t want to be preached to/insulted. How are you going to make $$ when your film insults fully half of your potential audience & you go on some idiotic awards show & insult those people again? That’s rank stupidity on steroids. In the end it all boils down to story; what is it about, who is your character in trouble, why do you care about them, & how are they going to get out of this jam?
Excellent commentary!
Why thank you Ma’dame.
Don- This is one of your best columns and will be sent on to our kids in Colorado and California. It will be interesting to observe how they react. My guess. The email will float off into one of those black holes somewhere and disappear; no comments. Our kids all reared their kids as we did on that classic, Snow White. My wife and I laughed out loud at the two poll choices at the end. We voted for Shaft but could have easily gone the other way too. Walt Disney is not turning in his grave; he is spinning big time. Happy Veterans Day. And, oh by the way, the Veterans Hospital in Prescott, AZ is terrific. Many of my Vietnam era buddies have used or presently use that facility. While I am not a veteran (did not pass the physical for the draft- bad knees), I am proud of the VA Hospital here and have never in 20 years heard a negative comment about it. It is an asset to this area of Arizona.
I too, have a DD214 somewhere in the house dated October 27, 1955. It is in a hanging file drawer, actually. Once in a blue moon I come across it. Then I look at the news headlines and say to myself, "I served for this?"
Look at a picture of your family
You served for that
Amen
Don, another opus. Thank you. We are watching in real time, the financial effect of DEI. We all find it both absurd and humorous, that a corporation like Disney walks off a cliff financially with these bad decisions.
The unseen effects of DEI become more personal. When you go to a doctor, or other healthcare professional, who is admitted to the program for reasons, other than intelligence, hard work and skill. In addition, we will soon see the effect of these policies as the corp traffic controllers are replaced.
Semper Fi to all those in the Marines. God bless our veterans.
POLL: They wouldn't dare do an all-white Shaft. Besides, Clint Eastwood is too old to play the lead role.
Doesn't matter. None of us will pay to see any of this DRIVEL; it is all an affront to anyone with a normal functioning brain. Ignore all of it, and move on to YOUR DAY.
I agree with you, but as this virus spreads it is increasingly more difficult to ignore it. Perhaps ignoring it has been going on for far too long. Perhaps we should have been alert to it and rejected and stopped it before it got so much of a lead on us. I believe everything happens for a reason. Without obstacles, we become complacent as a society very rapidly and that never ends well. As flawed as he is, I think that's why we have DJ Trump today. Perhaps he is here for a reason, to make us see the corruption that has overtaken our government and much of the world right before our eyes. It's all about timing and I don't believe in coincidences. Everyone needs to draw their own conclusions from it, and learn as well.
Now that was funny!
I can hardly wait for the throwing of the gays and lesbians off the roof scene in the he remake.
Too broad-but I'd settle for trannies.
The Guardian writes: "The entire farrago" and "bland and prosaic" who in the hell speaks like that??? Thought they were to write to audiences of 8th graders.
I had to look up farrago while reading the post.
The writer is all ferragoed up.
hahaha. he/she needs to be slapped!
If it's a drive-by slapping, I say let's form a posse NOW (unless there's air fare involved)!
nearly forty years ago i dated a Brit girl for a few months. she and her parents said "farrago" routinely. i think it's routine usage on that side of the pond.
Newspapers are supposed to write at the 8th grade reading level as you state. Perhaps it was the snooty UK edition? They use big words and mispronounce a lot of words.
Would it matter? How many people graduate grade school proficient in reading at their grade level? Perhaps we should be teaching reading and writing at the Tik Tok level+/-.
last report I saw, said 3rd grade level - that is where they are graduating at....
OMG. Only a matter of time before we are living in caves again. Never going to fix anything if people cannot read and comprehend the significance of events.
White Guys Rule… and Old White Guys rule the Mostest. Always have. Always Will!
For reference check out the Darlington Dude in Panama. That Ladies and Gentlemen is what you call a Set of Baytzim.
There! I said it and I’m gladI said it😊🎯
I watched that video of the incident and thought to myself, that guy could be me or one of my friends who are so tired of this crap that they just act by impulse. Not sure the statute of limitations on the following so I will disguise the names of those involved just in case. When I was in the Army some of my (nameless here) friends and I went into town to have fun and meet girls and dance. During the evening, a drunken Hippie guy and a couple of his Hippie friends decided he was going to confront one of us because we had short hair and it was obvious we were military and therefore not welcome dancing with Hippie girls. In the interest of brevity, let's just say that when you attack one of us you attack us all and the three Hippee dudes found themselves laying behind the bar and bleeding a little. The whole incident happened in seconds and it was over. The proprietor of the place didn't even call the cops, the dancing continued, and we left. Stuff usually happens in split seconds and I suspect the guy who popped those people reacted out of frustration, annoyance, and a sense of "I've had enough". Sad that people died and his life is ruined but eventually this happens somewhere. It likely could happen with many of us.
Don’t know how bad off he (I’ve even read a piece where he may be ex-SS or something like)is but he speaks for many many of out generation. Just how much of this pansy ass bs are we supposed to take.
Reminds me of that line, Too old to fight, too fat to run, I may as well shoot ‘em right here and be done with it!
I'm thinking the same thing. My husband would "see the hill, take the hill" regardless.
Didn't understand it, but I'll defend your right to say it.
The vast majority of good in the West was brought or discovered by the White race. We pass the values that led in one way or another to the above to our children through fables like Snow White. When we try and minimize that through promotion of false story telling it diminishes the pride our children take in their history and in themselves . My comment was about who should really be maintains these stories and why!
Thx, Chuck. Couldn't agree more.
“Separating people from God is a goal of all who seek power over man.”
And there’s your money quote.
Second favorite: “I laugh at the self-righteousness of an anti-capitalist enterprise that is rooting for a multi-billion-dollar company to make money. How quaint. How conformist. How dumb.”
The cadence is almost Churchillian. Nicely done.
And to Don, and all of those who served, thank you for your service to our country.
I'm no prophet, but I knew way back during the first few months "they" were talking about Political Correctness, that 1. the prima donna class had dreamed it up; 2. it would be a permanent arrangement by some crummy fiat or other; 3. that smart people, i.e., intelligence quotient above 78, would detest it. Since 3's are in the minority, it would be rammed down the throats of those who protested. It's the American way. The only joy there is in PC now is our shredded freedom of speech while we still have it, to make fun of it.
in the eighties i seriously considered pursuing a career in academia. i had only attended conservative Christian schools through undergrad. i had very good grades and a stellar GRE. when i looked into grad schools it soon became obvious that even at that early date academia and Christianity were utterly incompatible. i eventually got an MBA from a government-operated university. there i was blackballed from career placement assistance b/c of questioning a pro-abortion speaker.
You may have been blackballed for your spiritual stand, but I bet you have thrived anyway since then, as a spiritual orientation usually gives one a pretty stable grounding in life.
I still believe that if you stick to your core beliefs, try to live by a moral code, and work hard, it always turns out the way it was supposed to. In some ways, maybe they did you a favor by blackballing you. My mother used to say "when you die, all you take with you is the way you lived your life".
You're a winner!
Superb article! Beautiful!
….” If I had a magic mirror, I would put it to good purpose, using it to track down criminals and the like.”
LOL hilarious!!!